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Gondi people have been portrayed in the 2017 Amit V. Masurkar film Newton and in S.S. Rajamouli's 2022 blockbuster RRR, in which N. T. Rama Rao Jr. plays a fictionalised version of the Gond tribal leader Komaram Bheem. Some people have speculated that the plot of the 2021 film Skater Girl is based on the life of Gond skateboarder Asha Gond. [50]
The Kingdom of Chanda (present day Chandrapur) was one of the main Gond kingdoms, ruling parts of central India. In 1751, it was conquered by the Maratha ruler of Nagpur , Raghoji I Bhonsle . Establishment
Gonds are followers of the nature-based religion Gondi Religion/Koyapunem. [1] Gondwana means "Country inhabited by Gonds". In the early period, the Gondwana kingdom consisted of majorly four kingdoms — The Northern Gondwana was Garha Katanga or Garha Mandla Kingdom of Jabalpur and Southern part was Chanda Kingdom of Chandrapur.
By this time the Gond house of Chanda had weakened and Jatba forced it to recognize its independence. [5] thereafter the Gonds of Chanda were hostile towards Deogarh. [6] Jatba extended his kingdom as far as Nagpur, constructing a fort there as an outpost. [9] [4] He gave jagirs mostly to Gondi people, Korku people and Ahirs. He gave the ...
Chandrapur (earlier known as Chanda, the official name until 1964) is a city and a municipal corporation in Chandrapur district, Maharashtra state, India. It is the district headquarters of Chandrapur district. Chandrapur is a fort city founded by Khandkya Ballal Shah, a Gond king of the 13th century. [1]
Gondwana, also known as Gondaranya, the land of Gondwana, is a region of India named after the Gondi people. The supercontinent, Gondwanaland, was named after the Gondwana region, because it contained some ancient fossil-bearing rock formations. [1] Since Gondi people are spread widely across central India, the region has no unambiguous boundary.
The Muslim Raj Gond are found mainly in the city of Nagpur, living mainly in the Dao Mandi area.They are also found in the village Matkajheri in Nagpur District and in the districts of Narmadapuram, Betul, Balaghat, Seoni, and Raisen.
Komaram Bheem was born in Sankepalli, near Asifabad in Hyderabad State, British India to a family in the Gondi tribal community, [2] [self-published source?] [3] on 22 October 1901. [4] Bheem grew up in the tribal populated forests within the traditional kingdoms of Chanda and Ballalpur, isolated from the rest of the world and received no ...